are monitors a thing?

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neutrallyBiassed

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Sep 3, 2015
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I am trying to create a special spawn room with teleporters to different parts of my map and would like to know if cameras are part of tf2's modpack and if they are easily added if they are not.
 

Woozlez

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Many of the entities that may be available to HL2 mods like Garry's Mod are not necessarily available within Team Fortress 2. For example, the trigger_catapult entity was only just ported over to allow Jump pads to work. I may be wrong, but it's safe to assume that the functionality of live video cameras that Garry's mod has is not available in the TF2 SDK.

On the other hand, if you'd like to put different default spectator view points in each of the areas of the map, you're welcome to do that! Players will of course have to go into spectator mode, but it's definitely an option. You could also create a custom script in sourcemod to force players into spectator mode and to view a specific spectator camera after a button is melee'd, and then users just click again to deactivate.

I also might be completely wrong on all of this because I don't really do entity work, so someone PLEASE correct me!
 

henke37

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Source defaults to one rendertexture. All monitors use a render texture. Oh, and the cameras are flat out broken in tf2.
 

Bunbun

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I remember player a custom tf2 map with a mirror that reflects players, maybe that'l work?
 

worMatty

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It's func_mirror, and as the name suggests, it's a mirror, not a monitor screen or a portal to another part of the map. TF2 just doesn't support anything like that, unfortunately. The best tools we have available are windows.
 

MoonFox

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No and no. Simply not possible.
I think someone jimmy rigged one, I cant be sure, but I swear; someone jimmy rigged it to work. I think by having a crazy ridiculous mirror set up. though the tool camera does work... in some cases

quick edit: it does work if you can toggle some base codes... I forget how, but in general play, it still is broken
 

MoonFox

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I don't really know what that post means, but the answer hasn't changed in the last 34 days.
holy shit! I did not notice the OP date, I feel stupid right now. like for everything I am worth... stupid. well, its true, I think I found it working with an odd setup, but at the time I didn't understand it, and frankly; I cant remember the map's name or creator as it was a custom alpha, and that was all. (PS, it was for VSH)